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I am installing a much larger hard drive. The old one <6gb won't hold all the
XP (PRO) and Office software much less my files. I have switched HDs before
using Drive Copy. I want the new drive to be the boot drive and keep the
second as slave.

Will I have any problem with XP negating the single license i have? or
should I just reinstall everything?
 
If you do an image of one drive to the next you should be fine. You may be
asked to reactivate, but once everything is up and running and you wipe out
the old 6 GB drive you should be fine.

If you are going with a bigger drive I am curious why you would want to keep
the old 6GB drive anyway? It is probably a much slower IDE format ATA-66 or
even 33 and the new drive is probably ATA-100 or 133. Keeping that old
drive connected to the same IDE channel as the new drive could slow down the
performance of the nice new drive. I would say if you have the room on the
new drive don't even bother with the old drive. That is just my opinion. I
have lots of small drives like that just lying around here. Another cool
option for that old drive would be to put it into a external enclosure,
http://www.newegg.com/app/manufactory.asp?catalog=92&DEPA=0, so you can use
it as a portable drive. That is what I did with some of my old drives and
it is nice to have for backup and images.
 
Max Munger said:
I am installing a much larger hard drive. The old one <6gb
won't hold all the XP (PRO) and Office software much less
my files. I have switched HDs before using Drive Copy.
I want the new drive to be the boot drive and keep the
second as slave.

Will I have any problem with XP negating the single license
i have? or should I just reinstall everything?
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An image of the old drive will be seen by the OS in the
new drive as "itself", and as long as they remain on the
same PC, there will be no activation issues other than
your extreme, gnawing guilt at having "violated" the EULA
by having two copies of the OS and only one license. As
a matter of fact, you can have multiple copies of WinXP
on each of several drives, such as I do, and multiboot
between them. I do that to archive several versions of my
basic WinXP system and to keep bootable copies in
reserve in case one of my two "primary" hard drives crashes.
The only caution, if you choose to copy/multiboot is that the
new system not see the old system when it is booted up for
the 1st time. Thereafter they can be allowed to view each
other all they want, and you can drag 'n drop files between
them for quick file backups. Hey, if you want *real*
convenience and backup safety, try putting your old HD on
a removable tray like the ones that Kingwin makes. You can
buy the tray/rack pair for a price in the mid-20s on the 'net.
I use the one with the radial fan built into the bottom of the
tray, and works well to keep my ATA/133 7200rpm Maxtor cool.
Here's a link to their lineup:
http://kingwin.com/pdut_Cat.asp?CateID=25
If you use something like that, also give round cables a try.
They come in single and dual device forms, and in different
lengths, and they make the interior of the PC case much
more open for good air flow.

*TimDaniels*
 
And how does on go about doing "an image of one drive to the next"????

I mean... sounds simple enough--for one who knows--but I entered "drive
image" in Help and all it came out with was "Glossary, XCopy, Exe2bin"

So, what should someone do?

Thanks
 
Trilux said:
And how does on go about doing "an image of one drive
to the next"????
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Most of the hard drive manufacturers provide a utility
that (supposedly) copies the image of one HD to
another HD. This is to enable customers to upgrade
their systems to larger drives, of course. But unless
you *destroy* your old hard drive or reformat it, you will
then have <gasp> MORE THAN ONE operating system
and only ONE LICENSE. This is a violation of the EULA!
<Shiver> And worse, both can be run on the same PC!
Now can you understand why MSFTs in a Microsoft
newsgroup get a little vague about imaging hard drives?

Maxtor supplies copies of MaxBlast 3 with their new HDs
that supposedly will copy an image of a HD, but I never
had much success with it. Maxtor tech reps even admitted
to me that "the software wasn't very good". That's why I got
PowerQuest's Drive Image 7 (which is now part of Symantec's
Norton Ghost 9.0). With that utility, or many others, you can
do the "imaging" quite easily. There is even a free utility
called xxCopy, downloadable from
http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm, but I've never used it.

If you want to know more about "imaging" or multibooting
copies of Windows XP or 2K on the same machine, step
over to [comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage] where the gurus
are not constrained by corporate affiliations.

*TimDaniels*
 
Timothy Daniels said:
Maxtor supplies copies of MaxBlast 3 with their new HDs
that supposedly will copy an image of a HD, but I never
had much success with it.
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I found an old email today from SIIG, the maker of my
PCI card ATA/133 IDE controller. They said that
MaxBlast isn't "supported" by their PCI card. That may
have been the cause of the problem that I experienced,
although I can't see how the flavor of IDE controller
would affect HD imaging software.

*TimDaniels*
 
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